Once we had access again to the property, the house building could continue. The foundation guys came out and built out the most important part of the house. First they put the outside frame down. Next came the underground plumbing. Then more dirt and sand. Because of our soil type, we have to have 42″ […]
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House pad
The site prep and house pad took about a week to finish. First they cleared about 6 inches off the top, then came back and filled it so that it was about 18″ off of the natural ground. The back slopes down, so the pad is about 48″ off of the natural ground. We heard […]
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We bought our property in January. At the end of the month, our local master gardeners had a tree sale. We bought 1 of each navel orange, blood orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime, apricot, pear, fig, avocado, and some blackberries. Around the last frost, we went and planted them all. Every few days, we jumped across […]
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When we tell people about our culvert, they cannot possibly understand what we are talking about. If you even KNOW what a culvert is, then you typically picture the round concrete pipe that the driveway goes over. Ours is a very special culvert. Just a review of our timeline…We bought our property mid-January. By mid-March […]
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Over the course of the next 6 months, the culvert will become our biggest regret buying our property. Let me back up to pre-sale of our property. In the HAR description, it stated “Culvert must be installed per county specifications.” We thoroughly read the county page and from everything we could figure, the county will […]
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